Record-breaking Cognac comes to the UK
Cognac Croizet is bringing six bottles of 153-yr-old Cognac to the UK.
One of the record-breaking Cognac Croizet Cuvée Leonie 1858 bottles has been delivered to The Rib Room at Jumeirah Carlton Tower, London. The remaining five bottles are available through Dedicated Wines for a cool 100,000€ each.
A bottle from the same batch recently sold for 1,000,000¥ (£100,000) in Shanghai in September this year, the most ever spent on a bottle of French spirit in an unadorned bottle.
The Cuvée Leonie 1858 predates the phyloxera blight of 1875 which wiped out most of the European wine industry of the time.
The Cuvée was originally part if a dowry given to Leonie Croizet by her father in 1892. Leonie was the great-granddaughter of Leon Croizet who founded the company initially in 1805.
